Snafu Perspectives on the 'Accelerated Age' What's "Snafu"? The word means-"a situation marked by errors or confusion." It comes from the World War II acronym: "Situation normal; all fucked-up." In short perspective sketches of six social systems-politics, money, taxes, work, markets and law-"Snafu" explores what happened to those systems during the "Accelerated Age"-a period of two-hundred years that started with the Industrial Revolution and the American Revolution, and ended in the 1970s. "Snafu" examines how the unintended consequences of rapid growth in the West during the Accelerated Age came to distort our social values.About the Author: Peter Deegan was born in Scotland and grew up in Australia. He is a corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions lawyer. A former partner of an English "Magic Circle" law firm, Deegan has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. For the last few years he has spent much of his time in China. In the Nineties he took time out from practicing law to develop and produce the feature film, "Shimmer" (based on the play by John O'Keefe) for American Playhouse. Deegan is married with three children. "Snafu" is his first book.